The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1887-07-29
TERRITORIAL aLEAxrxes.

Fargo has captured the Congregational col.
lege.
Gsv. Piercs has declined tho presidency OF
the Grand Forks university.
A little son Of Hans P. Peterson, Of Brook.
fugs, had foot taken of by mower.
Claimed that Land Office Receiver Anderson,
Of Grand Forks, will soon lose his official heat.
An attempted jail delivery at Pembiua was
frustrated by prisoner informing the author
tiles.
Cass county valuation: Personal property,
$S097 76O2; real estate, S9077,S5S: total, $l2,-
l74,960.
Elmer E. Bishop, young Dell Rapids car
psnter, was killed by lightning while at work
Saturday.
Four companies OF the Seventh regiment
cavalry, at Fort Meade, have been ordered 10
Fort Riley, Kansas.
Sixty patents have been granted to citizens
OF Dakota during the past year, an average of
to every, 2,252 persons.
The Minneapolis Il Northern elevator burned
at McGanna, nine miles north Of Laramore.
It is total loss with 900 to 10000 bushels of
| wheat
Tho Brown county records were moved to
Aberdeen Tuesday without opposition, and
there is much rejoicing over the result ut that
place.
Fargo fears that local option will drive trade
from that city to Moorhead, and proposes to
raise the liquor license and fight the campaign
on the high license issue.
Hail fell to the depth OF four inches at Rapid
City, on Monday night doing $4,000 damage
freight train near that place was struck by
li.htning, and forty mules were killed.
Cooperstown Independent: In digging a
we'll for Ed. Blackwell, Saturday, JOS. Allen
struck a vein Of Ignite at depth OF twenty
feet, specimen of which can be seen at this
Office.
An opinion rendered by the county attorney
to the commissioners that the sgnors to pro-
hibiti0n petition could withdraw their names
for cause, knocks prohibition out In Hughes
county.
The commissioners of Marshall county sold
the issue of county bonds amounting to $4,000,
bearing per cent interest, to Fulton Il Cow
ran, Of Grand Forks for considerable amount
above par.
Dakota has In round numbers population
OF 100000. There arc in the Sioux Falls peni-
tentiary about IS persons, In the Bismarck
prison from 50 to To; in all, say 40, or crin,-
nal to more than 1900 Inhabitants.
While James Mctilll, employed as wiper
in tho Manitoba shops ut Mnot, was bathing
he got beyond bis depth and WIS drowned in
tho Mouse river. He is reported to have
wife and two children residing in St. Paul.
On the basis Of calculation adopted by Emi.
grafton Commissioner Mcclure In computing
tho increase Of population from tue public
land entries in Dakota, there has been gain
during the month Of June OF 1900 souls, or at
the rate Of ovcr 81, 900 for the year.
Cooperstown Independent: Big rains, with
more or less hail prevailed north Of us Tues
day. Charly Hall had thirty.fve acres Of bar
10y totally destroyed, aud go acres Of wheat
half destroyed; Insured. Joseph Stengle had q
slight loss; insured; also Mr.. Clinic. "a "a
About . o'clock Sunday night thieves broke
Into the second hand store Of j. G. Lally, on
Front street, Fargo, by breaking Ightiii
tho back door, and stole four gold and twenty
1 Gse silver ,vassaaes valued at fronf $2S to SO
each. Certain parties are suspected and tie
police are on their traill.
Vice President Fancller, Of the Territorial
Farmers Alliance, hos gone to Huron to at
tend meeting Of the executive committee.
This meeting Is called to take action regard
| ing Incorporating and widening the scope Of
the associations business. 1t IL proposed to
tako fro as we'll as hail insurance risks.
The discovery has just bcou made Of extensive
peat beds on the farm OF John L. Marso, In
Lake township, Sully county, ten miles north
east Of Blunt, In the Medicine valley. The
peat covers tract Of about six acres in extent,
! and with proper work 1t Is claimed will pro-
duce fuel equal if not superior To COAL
Territorial Statistician Mcclure has issued
| circular giving the condition Of the crops.
Reckoning 100 as a perfect crop no shows the
| average condition OF Dakota crops, as follows:
Wheat 70; corn 50; oats ~; rye 60; barley 81;
buckwheat 50; fax 72; native hay IT. Bis
marck station is the only station reporting
| lack Of moisture
Does Labor Produce All the Wealth.
Rev. DR.. G. N. Steele. In Work and Wages:
''Is 1t really trua that labor produces all the
wealth Of tho world? or course, by labor
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